Free Music Good Friday

Inbetween scoffing Marks & Sparks Chocolate Hot Cross Buns – the two best things about Easter decadently combined! – Free Music Good Friday has managed to assemble a wondrous collection of tunes to soundtrack your Bank Holiday. And because many of you will be spending tomorrow in quiet religious contemplation, we’re bringing it to you 24 hours early.

We’re dead impressed with Genre Free 2013, the second installment of the download album “jam packed with new Irish music”. Specially recorded tunes from Kalare, Superhanz, Rudy Trixx and Leading Armies can be found at [link]www.ndtproductions.org/GenreFree.html[/link]

More on all of the aforementioned in upcoming issues of Hot Press.

It was rave reviews all round at SXSW for Le1f, the flamboyant NYC rapper whose riotous Stubb’s gig is available for your viewing and download pleasure.

This week’s Noise Trade goodies include titles from Arcade Fire-tinged folkies Langhorne Slim, the vault-raiding Omnivore Recordings and The Get Togethers, a Houston collective who’ve penned a tune for every month of the year. We’re particularly taken with ‘June’.

All are free, but you’re very welcome to leave a tip!

Our tsunami of free album streams starts at [link]www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen[/link] where The Music Is You: A Tribute To John Denver, Bombino, Telekinesis, Caveman and Wavves are all lurking with considerable intent; Blached, Tessa Rose Jackson, The Strokes, Sarah Blasko, Georgiana Starlington, Charles Bradley, Beans & Fatback, Purling Hiss, Ensemble Pearl, Edwyn Collins and the brilliant Toro Y Moi are at [link]3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/albums.html[/link]; [link]music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/#/1[/link] brings Cartel, Crystal Bowersox, Thom Chacon, Winslow and The Black Lilies to the party; [link]music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/spinner#/1[/link] is the go-to place for Cave Painting, Crime & The City, Junip, Twinstar, Retro Stefson, Jason Blum and Skating Polly to the party and [link]pitchfork.com/advance[/link] chips in with Mike Patton’s score for The Place Beyond The Pines, Vondelpark, The Black Angels, IO Echo, Wire’s new old album, Chvrches, Wax Idols & Mudhoney.

You can also own one of the standouts from Junip’s self-titled new record courtesy of the widget below.

Hot Press is delighted to bring you this exclusive Irish download of ‘Terrorscope’, the new single from the mighty Gama Bomb, which can be found at [link]www.afm-records.de/ftp/GAMA_BOMB_free_single.zip[/link].

It’s taken from their fourth album, The Terror Tapes, which is released next month on AFM Records.

Generous chaps that they are, there are three non-album bonus tracks – ‘666% Insane’, ‘Jaws’ and ‘Terrorscope Espanol’.

“In a time when a tenner can't get you two pints and the average taxi fare costs more than a new kidney, we decided people deserved something for free – but instead of giving them money or free drink, we're offering four slices of high-intensity speed metal instead,” reflects singer Philly Byrne. “Download it, listen to it and give *** INSERT WHATEVER DAY IT IS *** a big hard kick up the arse with us!”

Dublin indie stalwarts The Dudley Corporation limber up for the release of their fourth album, Everyone Does Everything Wrong, with this rather lovely free taster, ‘Grey Lights’. Nice to have you back, gents.

One of Free Music Friday’s best discoveries this week is Cillie Barnes, a Los Angeles-based songstress who, for all of her website’s hippy-dippyness, sounds like a mainstream star waiting to happen.

Kendrik Lamar has wondrous things done to his ‘Swimming Pools’ tune by Vancouver producer Blood Diamonds who has an equally nifty Major Lazer remix available for free download.

The dancey downloads coming to us this week courtesy of http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3 include Stormfield, Kelpe, Amirali, j.Faraday, Timoti, Mad:AM, Kinky Leighton, The Golden Boy and Fjord Morrison.

Dead Can Dance serve up this atmospheric taster from their amply proportioned In Concert album, which drops on April 12.

Tom Odell has a demo version of the gorgeous ‘Long Way Down’ available for free [link]tomodell.com/post/30026366192[/link] download; meet Monkeeman, the Paul Weller-approved German outfit who channel The Smiths and the Sex Pistols, at [link]soundcloud.com/goodseedpr/sets/monkeeman-ep-pressure[/link]; Kings Of Leon and Black Keys fans will appreciate the boogie stomping going on at [link]www.thefamilyrain.com[/link] and the mighty Macrogrizzly are giving away four tunes at [link]www.reverbnation.com/macrogrizzly[/link] and donating 50% from the sale of another to charity.

It’s sadly not available as a download, but we still thought you’d like to see Jake Bugg tearing it up on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic.

Our fave chilled vid of the week accompanies ‘Full Circle’, the new single from Montreal’s Half Moon Run who are Longitude-bound this summer.

Good Friday is also Good Vibrations Friday as the brilliant Terri Hooley biopic hits screens nationwide. From Richard Dormer’s portrayal of the great man to the gig recreations featuring Rudi and The Outcasts, it’s fabulous stuff. Incidentally, the new issue of Hot Press is full of Good Vibes-y goodness with Terri and producer/soundtracker David Holmes both interviewed.

And that is where we must sling our Free Music Good Friday hook. Have a fab long weekend and keep those links coming to @stuartclark66

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

Sadly there'll be no outdoor rock and/or rolling in The Kingdom this weekend, but we've got another immense Free Music Friday collection of downloads, streams, vids and trailers to help you shrug off the festival cancellation blues.

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

With Ireland about to plunge into another Ice Age - a little melodramatic we know, but where's the bleedin' sun gone? - Free Music Friday has assembled a cockle-warming collection of downloads, streams, vids and trailers for your aural delectation. As for the weather, sort yourself out, son, or you'll get a slap!

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday is heading to Lisbon for the weekend - there may be a sneaky visit to Stadio Alvalade XXI to watch Sporting take on Academica – but before jumping into the HP Lear Jet, we've another quality collection of tunes and vids to brighten up your own impending downtime.

Free Music Friday

The new Ice Age may be upon us, but that hasn't stopped Free Music Friday assembling another all killer, no filler collection of tunes, trailers and vids, which is guaranteed to warm those winter cockles. We can't guarantee it'll stop your flight to Dublin being diverted to Reykjavik, but hey!

Free Music Friday

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Free Music Friday

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Free Music Friday

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Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

To celebrate what has been an extremely satisfying week of international football – well, unless you’re Dutch – Free Music Friday has gathered together another continent-straddling array of the choicest tuneage money can’t buy.

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

Despite being severely traumatised by Everton’s calamitous start to the season – expect them and Man Utd to start fighting over giving David Moyes his old job back – Free Music Friday has managed to gather together the very finest aural fare for your weekend delectation.

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday is Belfast-bound for Guinness Amplify - and some serious vinyl record shopping! - but not before we treat you to another bumper selection of tunes that won’t leave your bank account battered and bruised.

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

Sure, we've got a rakeload of audio streams from the likes of Dum Dum Girls and a veritable feast of visual goodies (hello Rubberbandits) this week, but this FMF will be forever known as 'The One With The Stuart Clark Tune In It'…

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

It’s a lean, mean Free Music Friday this week reflecting the fact that, with all that X Factor detritus clogging up the charts, most artists of quality and distinction have started their Christmas partying already. And who can jolly well blame them?

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

The world is a brighter, happier, all round more decent place following the Bryan Oviedo goal that ended 21 years of Old Trafford hurt on Wednesday for Everton. To celebrate this momentous sporting occasion (and in the case of our own United-supporting Craig Fitzpatrick, to lift the spirits!) we’ve got an extra bumper Free Music Friday for you.

Free Music Friday

We told you it would all be different with Martin ‘n’ Roy in charge! To bring the curtain down on a week of mindless footballing-related optimism – the 2016 European Championship is as good as Ireland’s – we have another bumper crop of quality no money required tuneage for you.

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

Having got up to all sorts of frolicsome festival fun at Indiependence, Free Music Friday is back to the serious business of tracking down the finest tuneage money can’t buy because they don’t cost anything.

Free Music Friday

Free Music Friday

When not slathering on the Factor 30 this week – or the Factor 3,000 in our Ms. Heslin’s case – Free Music Friday has assembled a collection of tunes so sunkissed they'll keep your cockles warmed right up till Christmas.